RUGA: FG Plots to Repeal Land Use Act – Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Allege

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has said there is a surreptitious plan by the Federal Government to repeal the Land Use Act and take over the control of lands in the country from state governors . . This , it said , was to enable the government to subsequently implement the suspended Ruga […]

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AFENIFERE COMMUNIQUE REJECTING PUBLIC FUNDED RANCHES: DEMANDS RESTRUCTURING

(Communique of Afenifere General Assembly, June 2018) The General Assembly of Afenifere met at the Akure home of the Leader, Chief R.F Fasoranti today after exhaustive deliberations on the state of the Nation adopted the following communique: 1, Plateau Genocide and President Buhari’s conflict of Interest :Meeting was  devastated  by the genocide that took place […]

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2019: IF APC RESTRUCTURES THE COUNTRY, PDP WILL SEEK FOR ALTERNATIVE TO CAMPAIGN WITH – Yinka Odumakin

The Afenifere National Publicity Secretary Mr. Yinka Odumakin believes the APC should rob the PDP of an article of campaign by doing the restructuring, which he considers necessary and expedient instead of fighting the PDP for calling for restructuring. In a swift welcome of the PDP’s position on restructuring, the Pan Yoruba Group Afenifere through […]

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AFENIFERE: ASKING IGBOS TO VACATE NORTH IS END OF NIGERIA, AS EL-RUFIA, OHANAEZE WANT AREWA YOUTHS LEADERS ARRESTED

Pan-Yoruba political organisation, Afenifere, has warned that the three months eviction issued by the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, for Igbos to vacate the North may be the beginning of the end of Nigeria. Spokesperson of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, while reacting to the eviction notice, urged Northern elders to call their youths to order. “Carrying […]

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Police Recruitment :Afenifere Rejects LGs As Basis Of Recruitment.

The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to the simmering crisis between the Senate Committee on Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission(PSC) which led to the suspension of the recruitment of 10,000 personnel into the Police Force in September . While the PSC insisted that the process should follow the constitutional provision of equality […]

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Resource control: Of renewed agitation and entitlement by Ojo_Maduekwe

I was in a male-dominated gathering and as it is with men, the conversation was about politics and one man said and I paraphrase: “Why are the Niger Delta Avengers blowing up pipelines and the people from that area claiming that the oil belongs to their region. They have forgotten that there was a time […]

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Nigeria is more divided under you: Afenifere, Ohanaeze tell Buhari

The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the pan-Yoruba socio-political body, Afenifere, have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on the unity of Nigeria. President Buhari had on Wednesday told militants who have continued to destroy oil installations in the Niger Delta that the unity of the country remained non-negotiable. The National Publicity Secretary of […]

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NORTHERN GOVERNORS FORGE ALLIANCE WITH SAUDI! By Yinka Odumakin

“In the long run, if we are not careful, this conference will flop. God forbid. If it flops, the resultant effect will not be imaginable. If anything happens and the country disintegrates, God forbid, many of us who are shouting their heads off may not have anywhere to go. “My people and the people of […]

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We Don’t Want Fulani Cattle Rearing In Yorubaland – Afenifere

Afenifere, a Pan-Yoruba Socio Political group yesterday rose from an emergency meeting in Akure, the Ondo state capital and called for the stoppage of cattle rearing activities in the south West states following the menace of Fulani herdsmen. The group said that the activities of the fulani herdsmen in the states have endangered the lives […]

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